1. Edward Carlyon¹ Eliot was born c1875. Edward died 1/01/1940 in Beverley, St Lawrence, Barbados, at 64 years of age.

He married twice. He married Clara Frances Paterson. Clara died 1926. He married Alice Marion Shand 1927. Alice was born in Dominica, West Indies 1906. Alice was the daughter of Francis Byam Berkeley Shand and Elfreda Millicent Nicholls. Alice died 1959 in Trinidad, West Indies, at 53 years of age. From The Times, January 5, 1940

Mr. E.C. Eliot, C.B.E., formerly Administrator of Dominica, died at Beverley, St. Lawrence, Barbadoes, on New Year's Day.

Edward Carlyon Eliot was the second son of the late Rev. E. Eliot. After being educated at Bradfield and at Uppingham he went cattle ranching in Argentina from 1888 to 1892, and sugar planting in Demerara from 1893 to 1895. In the last-mentioned year he entered the Colonial Service, and among the posts he held were those of Provincial Commissioner, West Africa, 1907-10; Commissioner and Warden of Tobago, 1911-13; Resident Commissioner, Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, 1913-20; private secretary (temporary) to the Governor-General of Australia, 1916-17; Acting Chief Secretary and Deputy Governor of Uganda, 1921-22; and Acting Governor of Uganda, 1922. In 1923 he was appointed Administrator of Dominica, which post he retained until his retirement in 1931. He married first Clara Frances, eldest daughter of the late Colonel A. J. Paterson, 19th Regiment. She died in 1926. Secondly he married Marion, daughter of the Hon. F.B.B. Shand. Mr. Eliot had a son.

Edward Carlyon Eliot and Alice Marion Shand had the following child:

2 i. David² Eliot (living status unknown).

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